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Glider Pilots in Sicily

Door Mike Peters

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#331941-VE31
Titel
Glider Pilots in Sicily
Auteur
Peters, Mike
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Barnsley : Pen & Sword
Jaar van uitgave
2012
ISBN10
1848846835
ISBN13
9781848846838
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
original black boards, dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The British Airborne landings on Sicily are the least known and, without doubt, the most fraught with political and technical strife. Newly formed Air landing troops were delivered into battle in gliders they knew little about. The men of the Glider Pilot Regiment (GPR) had self-assembled the gliders while living in the empty packing cases. They accomplished this complex and technically challenged task while living on fly ridden, dusty North African airfields. After only a few hours of conversion training they took off for a night flight across the Mediterranean Sea that was to end in near-catastrophe. With over three hundred soldiers drowned off Sicily that night in July 1943, the first major operation attempted by the British using gliders almost ended in total disaster. In fact a few Ai... (Lees verder)rborne troops reached dry land and attacked their objectives. Shining examples of collective and individual acts of courage rocked the Italian and German defenders. This book tells the controversial story of that first mass glider operation and the men who proved the GPR motto ? Nothing is Impossible. This is the first account of the Sicily air landing operation.
Pagina's
305
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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